RABAT
 

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PhotiO Flandrin.
Rabat : A Fountain' along the Boulevard El Alou^
 

For oversea communications, see Approaches,   p. 55.

Timetable. — One day suffices for'viewing Rabat. Starting from the
Boulevard El Alii in the morning, we glace at the El Alii Cemetery (p. 152,)
tlien proceed to ihe^Kasba of the Udaia (p. 152) visit the Medersa Museum
(p, 152) and the Moorish Cafe, the native siiks in the rue des Consuls and the
rue Sou'ika (p. 151); in the afternoon, we drive to sea the Hassan Tower
(p. 157), Sheila (p. 158), the quarter of the THarga, the Almohade ramparts
and the district of the Ocean (p. 160).

RABAT (in Arabic : Ribdt El Fath), one of the three Hadria
towns, i. e. with an urban civilised population, and one of four
Maghzen towns (that is to say Imperial, or the residence of tl>e
5ultan), Rabat is situated at the mouth and on the \. bank of the
Oued Bu Kegreg, opposite Salee. It is the administrative centre
of the Sheriffian Government and of the French Protectorate,
the seatfof the French Residency General in Morocco, and the
principal town of the Rabat region, with a population of
450,000.

The present population of Rabat numbers 30,953, of wham
18,723 are Moslems and 3.000 Jews. The Europeans who numb¬
ered 300 at the beginning of 1913, were 9,226 in 1921, com¬
prising 6,308 French; 75 English; 1,445 Spaniards; 1,238 Italians.

The Medina, with the Mellah, are comprised within a trapezium,
the sides of which measure 1,500 and 600 ni. respectively, while